Emma mittelstaedt



(No Model.) f v E. MITTELSTAEDT.

HAIR FRONT.

No. 253,412. melmav Feb.v7.1 882.

A MM @umgeslUWENTUR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMA MITTELSTAEDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-FRONT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,412, dated February 7, 188,2.

V Application filed Novemberm, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMMA. MITTELs'rAEn'r, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Fronts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved construction of hair-fronts for ladies use, whereby they can be finished in a neater and more durable manner, more easily secured to the hair, and worn with or without parting, as desired.

Heretofore the hair forming a hair-front has been held together by means of a sheet-metal clamp, which Was clumsy and did not hold the strands of hair properly. Another mode of attaching the hair in parted fronts was to secure them to a tine piece of gauze, as in the ease of wigs, which, however, was expensive, and had the disadvantage that it indicated the artificial nature ot' the front.

The object of my invention is to form a reliable and permanent connection of the hair.

constituting the front, either for parted or unparted fronts, and dividing in the latter case the front, so as to show the natural parting of the hair. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 represent top views of two improved hair-fronts, one being parted, the other unparted; 'and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail top and bottom views of the connection of the strands of hair with the fastening device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

vReterrin g to the drawings, A represents my improved hair-front, which may be made either of two parted sections, B,or of one continuous body, as shown respectively in Figs. 1 and 2. The hair is gathered at the middle rear portion of the hair-frontinto strands a of uniform widths, which are secured to a transverse conmeeting-wire, b, and a binding-weft, d, or by any other suitable connection by which the hair may be tied together in fiat and even manner, the wire being provided with eyes or loops e at both ends, for convenient connection t0 the hair. This binding up of the strands in hair-fronts by a transverse wire and weft forms a durable and permanent connection, as the hair cannot get loose, while it adapts itself 5o evenly to the head, it having throughout a V uniform thickness.

Having thus Vdescribed my invention, I claim as newa nd desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A hair-frontfcomposed of waves A, having strands b at therear, connected bya transverse binding-weft, substantially as described.

2. A hair-front composed of waves A, having strands b at the rear, connected by a transv verse binding-weft, provided with eyes and loops at the ends, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMMA MITTELSTAEDT.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, CARL KARP. 

